passionate
Etymology

From Middle English passionat, from Medieval Latin passionatus, past participle of passionare ("to be affected with passion"); see passion.

Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈpæʃənɪt/, /ˈpæʃənət/
Adjective

passionate

  1. Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
    Mandy is a passionate lover.
  2. Fired with intense feeling.
    • 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon, and other Poems on several Occasions, Preface, in Samuel Johnson (editor), The Works of the English Poets, London: J. Nichols, Volume 31, 1779, p. 93,
      Homer intended to shew us, in his Iliad, that dissentions amongst great men obstruct the execution of the noblest enterprizes […] His Achilles therefore is haughty and passionate, impatient of any restraint by laws, and arrogant of arms.
  3. (obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.
    • c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene i], line 544:
      She is sad and passionate at your highness’ tent.
    • c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene ii], line 124:
      Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,
Synonyms Related terms Translations Noun

passionate (plural passionates)

  1. A passionate individual.
Verb

passionate (passionates, present participle passionating; simple past and past participle passionated)

  1. (obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗:
      Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].
  2. (obsolete) To express with great emotion.
    • c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene ii], line 6:
      Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.



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